Doom Portman Quotes & Sayings

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Part of my journey is to say that the soul of the human being must be a massively intricate, wonderful creation that God has a respect for in ways that we do not and that leaves a huge amount of space to go explore. — William P. Young

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp. — Chris Froome

This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years. — Bernard Hopkins

You can create a CGColor directly using Core Graphics methods if you prefer, but using UIColor saves you from having to manually release the color when you no longer need it. Listing — Nick Lockwood

No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function. — George Soros

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.' — Dree Hemingway

I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative. One lives in a field of influences, one is influenced by everyone one meets, everything is an exchange of influences, all opinions are derivative. Once you deal a new deck of cards, you've got a new deck of cards. — Peter Brook

Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did. — Italo Calvino

It is hard for fish to be aware of water. It is hard for us to notice something that's an ingrained pattern shaping our habitual thought. — Anne Chapman

I am that by which I know 'I am' — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose. — Dennis C. Blair

All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer. — Theodore White

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join. — Sarah Mlynowski